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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Crime Writing for Teens and Adult
Recently, one of my favorite authors-who I am also lucky to call a friend-published her first work of crime fiction for adults after putting out seven young adult mysteries and thrillers. I devoured Kara Thomas's Out of the Ashes last spring, and with the upcoming release of my own debut adult thriller, The Split, after publishing five young adult thrillers myself, I was eager to talk to Kara about making the leap to the adult space after years of writing for a teen audience.
I wrote-but didn't sell-my first thriller for adults in 2017, when my first YA novel was under contract but not yet published. Writing in both spaces has always been a career goal of mine, and I had a sneaking suspicion the same was true for Kara, so I wanted to pick her brain about working in YA while also-finally!-making the move into the adult crime writing space. In the conversation that follows, Kara and I compare notes about taking on new challenges and expanding our audience at this pivotal point in both our writing careers.
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